Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I have been working more in my sketchbooks in preparation for my upcoming workshop in France. My sketchbook is a Hahnemuhle 6 x 9 inches with cold press watercolor paper. We finally had our first snow in Denver and I raced downtown to gather material for paintings. I love the wet snow which sticks to everything, streets, trees, utility poles, buildings, and vehicles. It also hides so many unnecessary details and helps me simplify. I h

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I teach an Introduction To Watercolor Class at the Art Students League of Denver and this is one of the demonstrations that I did for the class. It is one of my favorite classes because the students learn techniques and fundamentals that will save them countless hours of confusion and frustration. I get the students painting right away because I sincerely believe that they can learn faster and have more fun painting things rather than

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. I painted this Taos farm a few years ago and recently found some old photo's and decided to do it again. This time I used rough watercolor paper so that I could build more texture to create a different mood. I also rearranged a few things and changed some values to emphasize different areas. The rough paper did exactly what I wanted. When I dragged my brush full of paint over lighter dry washes, it created the dry brush textures I was

Watercolor Painting by Dennis Pendleton. Every summer I paint in different gardens in Denver and then when the weather changes I return to my studio and work on larger paintings inspired by those plein air garden studies. These are much more than just larger versions because I take different flowers from different paintings and arrange them as I see fit. My memory and imagination contribute quite a bit to these finished large floral paintings and I decided to create my own b